»Im Wilden Westen. Neue Forschungen zum Mesolithikum in den österreichischen Alpen«
»Im Wilden Westen. Neue Forschungen zum Mesolithikum in den österreichischen Alpen«
Caroline Posch | NHM
The Mesolithic (9,600-5,500 BC) is still a rather unknown era in the public perception. This is all the more regrettable because this period of human history represents a time in which Europe fundamentally changed as a habitat for humans, animals and plants. Open grass steppes changed to dense forests and the sea flooded vast stretches of land that had previously been rich habitats. On the other hand, retreating glaciers released large areas that had previously been covered in ice and uninhabitable. These changing conditions and landscapes resulted in a series of fascinating variations and adaptations in the lifestyles and subsistence strategies of these last hunter-gatherer-fisher communities of Europe.
Thus, a number of interesting results on the recolonisation and use of the Austrian Alps have also been achieved in western Austria over the last 30 years. These underline the importance of the Western Eastern Alps as a link between North and South and the respective technological complexes of Southern Central Europe.
Within the lecture »In the Wild West. New Research on the Mesolithic in the Austrian Alps« will give an insight into mesolithic research in the west of Austria and present the results of the latest investigations in this field.